The details of the Dreyfus case are too long to be given here. Let it suffice to say that after a five years imprisonment on Devils Island, Dreyfus was brought back to France and re-tried. His sentence, pronounced on Sept. 9, 1899, was Guiltywith extenuating circumstances. In French law this with extenuating circumstances is equivalent to our with recommendation to mercy. He was pardoned by the President ten days later.